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At what workload?

Copying about 5GB's of tv shows. About 20 or so different videos all together.

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I have a vertex 4 from ocz that I picked up a few years ago now, and a pretty new samsung 840 evo ssd. I was doing a simple test and found that my vertex 4 which I'm pretty sure is much older than the evo drives is actually faster. Can someone tell me why the vertex 4 might be faster than a newer 840 evo drive. Both use the sata 6Gb/s connector.

This is my opinion, it doesn't mean I'm right and is liable to change at any time. I may offend of which I apologize in advance.


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Age of a drive does not necessarily determine its speed and neither does the SATA generation. Just because they're both SATAIII doesn't mean they'll be equal. I mean compare a SATAIII hard drive to a SATAIII SSD.

 

What performance numbers are you seeing?

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Age of a drive does not necessarily determine its speed and neither does the SATA generation. Just because they're both SATAIII doesn't mean they'll be equal. I mean compare a SATAIII hard drive to a SATAIII SSD.

 

What performance numbers are you seeing?

vertex 4 gets about 190MB/s and the evo gets about 180MB/s. I know its not a big difference I was just curious why it was slower while it was a newer drive.

This is my opinion, it doesn't mean I'm right and is liable to change at any time. I may offend of which I apologize in advance.


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vertex 4 gets about 190MB/s and the evo gets about 180MB/s. I know its not a big difference I was just curious why it was slower while it was a newer drive.

At what workload?

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At what workload?

Copying about 5GB's of tv shows. About 20 or so different videos all together.

This is my opinion, it doesn't mean I'm right and is liable to change at any time. I may offend of which I apologize in advance.


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